Biology of the brain

Question 1

midbrain

Answer 1

involved in visual and auditory reflexes (ex.turning head twoard noise)

Question 2

pons

Answer 2

sleeping

Question 3

medulla

Answer 3

controls vital reflexes like breathing and heartbeat

Question 4

cerebellum

Answer 4

involved in coordinating movements like motor responses (reflexes)

Question 5

four lobes

Answer 5

frontal, temporal, opcipital, paretial

Question 6

Frontal lobe functions

Answer 6

problem solving

Question 7

motor cortex

Answer 7

located in the frontal lobe. involved in the initiation of all voluntary movements

Question 8

paretial lobe functions

Answer 8

sensing temperature

Question 9

somatosensory cortex

Answer 9

located in paretial lobe. processes information about touch, location of limbs, pain, and temperature.

Question 10

temporal lobe functions

Answer 10

hearing and where your long term memory is

Question 11

brocas area

Answer 11

located in the left frontal lobe. nesacery for combing sounds into words and words into meaningful sentances.

Question 12

wernickes area

Answer 12

located in left temporal lobe. necessary for speaking in coherent sentances and understanding speech.

Question 13

oppcipital lobe functions

Answer 13

seeing

Question 14

limbic system

Answer 14

makes up the core of the forebrain. involved behavioral and emotional responses

Question 15

hypothalmus

Answer 15

regulates many motivational behaviors like freeze, fight, or flight. and controls much of the endocrine system by regulating the pituitary gland.

Question 16

amygdala

Answer 16

involved in forming, recognizing and remembering emotional experiences.

Question 17

hippocampus

Answer 17

curved structure inside temporal lobe. involved in fleeting memory by putting them into perminent storage.

Question 18

thalamus

Answer 18

involved in reciving sensory information, and sending the info to the places where there needed(secretary)

Question 19

sympathetic system

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one part of the automatic nervous system. triggered by threatining or challenging physicl stimulation like a snake. or by psychological stimualtion like thoughts of public speaking

Question 20

para sympethetic system

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the other part of the automatic nervous system. decreases phychological arousal and helps the body become more calm.

Question 21

autonomic nervous system

Answer 21

all involuntary functions.

two parts: sympathetic and para sympathetic divishion.

Question 22

homeostasis

Answer 22

the sympathetic and para sympethetic system work together to keep the bodys level of orausal in balance for optimum functioning.

Question 23

endocrine system

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made up of nemourous glands located throughout the body. these glands secreate chemicals called hormones which affect organds, mucsles and other glands in the body

Question 24

pituitary gland

Answer 24

controls the activity of most other hormone-secreting glands.

Question 25

pancreas

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regulates level of sugar in the bloodstrem by secreting insulin

Question 26

adrenal glands

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secretes hormones that regulate sugar and salt balences and help the body resist stress.

Question 27

thyroid

Answer 27

regulates metabolism through secretion of hormones.

Question 28

parkinsons disease

Answer 28

a progressive nervous system dissorder that effects movement

Question 29

nerve

Answer 29

a whitish fiber or bundle of fibers that transmits impulses of sensation to the brain or spinal cord, and impulses form these to the muscels and organ.

Question 30

neurons

Answer 30

cell body, axon, dendriteis

Question 31

Alzheimers disease

Answer 31

progressive mental deteriation that can occur in the middle or old age. effects momory

Question 32

glials cells

Answer 32

the glue. they are worker cells. they clean up debris and bring nutrients to neurons, hold neurons in place etc.

Question 33

dopamine

Answer 33

helps us move put body and helps with posotive mood

Question 34

serotonine

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helps with hunger and posotive mood

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acetylcholine

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helps move our mucsles and helps with memory

Question 36

endorphines

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natural pain killers and help with good feelings

Question 37

norepinephrine

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helps us with elertness and arousal

Question 38

language center on the left

Answer 38

brocas area, Wernicks area, motor cortex

Question 39

corpus callosum

Answer 39

connects both sides of the brain to which the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and vice verca.

Question 40

left brain functions

Answer 40

analytic thought, logic, language, reasoning, science and math, written, numbers skills, right hand control

Question 41

right brain functions

Answer 41

art awarness, creativity, imagination, intuition, holistic thought, music awarness, 3-D forms, left hand

Question 42

the central nervous system

Answer 42

brain and spinal cord. processing center

Question 43

somatic nervous system

Answer 43

all voluntary functions

Question 44

somatic nervous system

Answer 44

all voluntary functions

Question 45

peripheral nervous system

Answer 45

all the nerves that extend from the spinal cord has two parts: soomatic nervous system and autnomic nervous system.

Question 46

cerebrum

Answer 46

smushy part of brain (all 4 lobes)